Long Shot

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Driven by a pandemic unprecedented in our lifetimes —a virus that has killed our neighbors, our friends, our families—we are witnesses to the massive international effort to create COVID-19 vaccines and get shots in arms. The vaccines were developed in record time, but they evolved from centuries of experimentation and science. “LONG SHOT: THE 250-YEAR JOURNEY TO THE COVID-19 VACCINES” travels back in time to the long-forgotten first inoculators and connects them to the research, methods, and people behind today's vaccines.

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Episodes

The Super Episode

The final episode of Long Shot travels millions of years into the past to when coronaviruses first appeared, and brings us back to the future of COVID vaccines. With a hell of a lot of vaccine milestones in between. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 06, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 10

Frankenvirus

The future of coronavirus vaccines may be an engineered spike protein called HexaPro. And it's carried into the human body by a bird disease. We'll learn how it works, and ask why one of this vaccine's creators brought the 1918 flu back from the dead. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 29, 2021•22 min

Puke Worms

Marina wanted companionship during the loneliness of quarantine, so she got a COVID pet. But nothing went as planned. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 22, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 8

A Human Challenge

Meet Jacob Hopkins, one of the first people to contract COVID-19 on purpose. He's part of the first human challenge trial for coronavirus. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 15, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 7

Long COVID

Some coronavirus patients have never recovered. They suffer vivid dreams, insomnia, and a host of other weird symptoms that are nothing like the respiratory illness we think of as COVID-19. They have long COVID, and they’ve had it since the beginning of the pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Sep 08, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Immature Cells

Moderna started with essentially zero employees before becoming one of the biggest names in COVID-19 vaccines. We'll speak with the company's founders. And we'll find out what role Jennifer Aniston played in that origin story. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 01, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Spike

How did scientists figure out how to make a coronavirus vaccine two years before coronavirus struck? And what the hell is a spike protein? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 25, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Blended Mouse Brains

Jeryl Lynn Hilleman has the rare distinction of having a vaccine named after her, because it’s made from her cells. And her father, Maurice Hilleman, was the world’s greatest vaccine maker. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 18, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Not Unto Death

Nicola Pasquarelli is a human guinea pig, one of the first people on earth to get a COVID-19 vaccine. We'll also meet the Sutton family, the first big inoculation entrepreneurs—who made a killing preventing killing, 250 years ago. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 11, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Beginnings

A legend about ancient inoculators on a sacred mountain, and the remarkable story of how the genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first released to the public. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 04, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Introducing: Long Shot

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Jul 23, 2021•2 min

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